Screen Magnification Systems for Purchase

Feature	ZoomText 9.1	Magic 11.0	Lunar Lunar Plus 11.71 Supernova	ZoomWare
IBM	IBM	IBM	IBM	IBM
* Demo download available	Yes www.aisquared.com	Yes www.freedomscientific.com	Yes http://www.yourdolphin.com/productdetail.asp?id=1&gclid=COutt6X9opsCFRBM5QodL1hNwA	Yes www.aisquared.com
Magnification	1x-36x	1-36x	1.2x-60x	105% to 200% 20 levels
Mouse tracking	Track on items - mouse pointer - text cursor - menu - controls - tool tips - windows Area Tracking - entire screen - insides area - outside area	(Selections for edge or center ) Options include - dialog and menu - Document reading - Cursor - Mouse Navigation options - auto switch - mouse line lock - Track carets and cursor - Tether to Display	A little jerky while moving to the end or a screen. Over all good. - Mouse to screen - Stay in window - Track Caret - Track Menu - Track Controls - Track windows - Centering - Hooking - Highlighting active area	Good Moves relatively smoothly. Sound not be jerky or have a delay while panning on new system.
Feature	ZoomText 9.1	Magic 11.0	Lunar 11.71	ZoomWare
Mouse Pointers	Yellow w/crosshairs Red w/circle Giant Green Control key crosshairs Blue circle when moving Custom options available	- Cross hair (short/long) - Oval/.Oval Scope - Box/Box Scope - Long box Scope - Long oval Scope - (changes in colors)	Variety of large high contrast mouse pointers. Options are available for: the standard mouse pointer for horizontal, vertical and diagonal resizing the text select pointer the working in the background pointer	Large pointer Bright pointer
Cursor Options	Blue wedge Green circle Red Frame Custom options available	- Oval - Triangles - Box - Line - (multiple colors)	Highlight - Mouse - Beam cursor - Line - Focus - Read from line - Read from word	Yes Blue Caret
Panning (smooth L-R scrolling)	Keyboard controlled Speed not adjustable Must hold down keys to pan	Keyboard controlled	Automatic (and line panning) Very jerky	Keyboard controlled Speed not adjustable Must hold down keys to pan
Color Enhances	Invert brightness Reverse video Yellow on Black Blue Dye Black and white Black and white invert Reverse Gray Custom settings	Inverse Display - magnified view - unmagnified view - all	Custom (any color combo)	Color Tinting Reverse video

Feature	ZoomText 9.1	Magic 11.0	Lunar 11.71	ZoomWare
Split screen	Top Bottom Left Right Adjustable	Horizontal Could do vertical spit using lens	Top Bottom Left Right Adjustable	Full screen Large Lens Small Lens
Magnification lens (movable window)	Yes Resizable using the adjust button. Keeps magnification lens on to follow typing.	Yes Resizable using resize view. Changes color to indicate resize is on.	Yes; resizable Can change color and thickness of the lens window. 7 different options	Yes (pre-set size)
Overlay (stationary window)	Yes; can be placed where you want it. Using adjust button.	Yes; can be placed where you want it. Using the resize button.	Yes; several; can be placed where you want them. Can change size, color, and thickness of boarder.	Zoom
Desktop Finder	Yes. Locates information on your desktop using a search field.	No	No	No
Web Finder	Yes. Locates a specific link or arranges linking in alphabetical order, visited links, and unvisited links	No	No	No
Megs of RAM Needed	256 MB RAM 1 GB Vista	512 MB	Memory - 1Gb or higher	Minimum 512 MB RAM for Windows XP (1 GB recommended) Minimum 1 GB RAM for Windows Vista (2 GB recommended)
Hard Disk Space Required	25 MB Additional 60 for NeoSpeach	Less than 200 MB of hard disk space for program and settings files.	Hard disk - 500 MB of free space, if multiple Text To Speech (TTS) engines are to be installed then more free space will be required	50 MB free hard disk space
Feature	ZoomText 9.1	Magic 11.0	Lunar 11.71	ZoomWare
Processor	450 MHz Pentium III processor or equivalent 1.5 GHz for Window Vista	450 MHz or higher	Processor - Intel® Core 2 Duo™ 2.1Ghz, or Intel® Pentium™ D Processor 925 3.0Ghz, or Intel® Centrino Duo™ Mobile 1.66, or AMD® Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3600+, or equivalent or higher.	1 GHz Pentium® 4 processor or equivalent 1.5 GHz for Windows Vista
Operating Systems	Windows Vista (32 and 64 bit) XP ((32 and 64 bit) Win 2000,	All Windows XP 32-bit platforms Vista 32 and 64 bit	Windows Vista and XP 64 bit compatible	Windows Vista (32 bit only) Windows XP (32 bit only) with Service Pack 2 (SP2)
Foreign language support	Yes Multiple choices	Partial	Yes Multiple choices	No
Price range	Magnifier CD $395 Magnifier USB 495.00 (no speech) MagReader CD $595 MagReader USB 695.00	Standard (no speech) $345 Professional (no speech) $395 Standard w/speech $545 Professional w/speech $595 No USB	Lunar (no speech) $395.00 LunarPlus w/speech $595.00 Supernova w/speech $1190.00 No USB	$149 download only $179 Shipment No Speech

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